[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TJEvans:
Raj, I appreciate your assessment of my testing, you've ALWAYS helped me and others and I respoct your opinion.

This, however was my objective, to find out if Hardware acceleration is a viable benchmark for testing a rom. A secondary objective was to prove, once again, that LBS is full of himself, claiming to achieve something that isn't possible without proper drivers.

I thought that my test was rather conclusive. I used the same 2 files on each rom, one at 1080p, one at 720p. I attempted to run using hardware decoding, as well as software decoding on a rather comprehensive set of players, some of which were actually suggested to me by those that claim to have seeen a 1080p video file play SMOOTHLY with hardware decoding on Illuminate. I even tried a file that was also suggested to me , the Nvidea 1080p test video from youtube. I downloaded it, saved to my PC, transferred to my Illuminate Gtablet and attempted to play it in various video players. Not one of them would play it with hardware decoding, while another user claimed that it played smoothly and beautifully for him.

You must understand, there are people that are tentative to start using the relatively incomplete honeycomb roms for various reasons. One that is parrotted on these forums is "I'll wait until it has hardware acceleration." Well, LBS claimed that Illuminate does indeed, have hardware acceleration, and further, that Vital Player can play HD video files.

When I went to the Illuminate thread, to ask how this was possible and whether anyone could confirm that it does, in fact, work, we were berated with responses telling us to "man up and flash the rom," "see for yourself," etc. I initially asked them to run some benchmark tests, which they did. Then it came to my attention that those benchmarks don't necessarily test the hardware acceleration. The Browser hardware acceleration test is incomplete, since it relies on not just hardware, but network speed, and browser performance. They basically made anyone that doubted LBS out to be a *****, that wouldn't test things for themselves. Well, I did test for myself. I tried everything I could think of to get hardware decoding to play a 1080p, 720p, and standard definition video file on Illuminate and nothing worked. So, it's my opinion whether proven in the court of scientific fact, that LBS is full of it.

He didn't solve flash issues with Honeycomb

He didn't create his own Rom without plageurizing Bottle of Smoke

and he did not get hardware acceleration working on a device that has no drivers to make it so.

it was also his lack of forum support for his own rom that got him banned from Slatedroid...it's not far from happening here, either.

All they told me to do was flash the rom and see for myself. I flashed it, and saw for myself that it does NOT work. Not one person actually confirmed that it was working. They claim that I don't show proof of my results, yet we haven't seen their proof. Not even from the ever absent developer himself.

What I DID prove, is "whether it's working or not, it's unimportant." You can't watch a 1080p, or 720p movie on a froyo rom, just as you can not watch one on a honeycomb rom. SO, hardware acceleration is a non-issue when deciding to flash a honeycomb rom. Pick your favorite and go with it...